Halloween means something a little different for newcomers on P.E.I. For some, it was a new adventure to mark with their families. For others, it was a chance to celebrate and get to know their neighbours.

Increase needed to meet 'ever-growing demand for skilled labour' Canada will raise its annual immigrant intake by about 13 per cent to 340,000 by 2020 under a multi-year plan unveiled by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen on Wednesday.

New numbers from Statistics Canada released this week show nearly half of job-seeking Canadians have a post-secondary degree or diploma. But two-thirds of vacancies nationally in 2015 and 2016 didn't require more than a high school education.

At four years old, Ritaj Daher is so small that when she picks up her neighbour's cat Lonny, his hind legs trail on the floor. She and her brother Abdul Razak, 5, love to carry Lonny around their Halifax apartment that way. Lonny doesn't seem to mind, since he keeps coming back to visit.

Toronto city council has appointed Councillor Neethan Shan as the city’s Newcomer Advocate. Shan was elected councillor of the Ward 42 Scarborough-Rouge River riding in February’s byelection, just over a year after being elected as a Toronto District School Board trustee. Following the byelection, Shan was also appointed as the city’s Youth Advocate.

A section of Canada's immigration law barring anyone from settling in the country if they have a condition deemed a burden on medical or social services is outdated and needs to be brought in line with Canadian values, the minister in charge said Wednesday.

A new research report, Immigrant Entrepreneurship: Barriers and Facilitators to Growth, from Ryerson University’s Diversity Institute shows that a substantial proportion of new Canadians are attracted to entrepreneurship as a desirable career choice (73 per cent), but the reasons may be different than for Canadian-born entrepreneurs.